"realistic" interfaces as we think of them are largely just based on existing visual paradigms designed to convey information quickly and efficiently to the human visual cortex (or in a way that can be efficiently learned)
things like radar scopes, tabular columnated data readouts, aircraft HUDs and so on
all that goes out the window when you're dealing with literally any other type of visual processing - whether it's other terrestrial species or actual aliens (and you should absolutely follow the rule of cool anyway!)
anyway this is all just a longwinded justification to ask, i wonder what a navigational interface would look like for one of the bird species that can directly sense magnetic fields
oh i think i'm going to link the "magnetic field vision(???)" thing here too because it's actually really interesting
it's based on chemical processes that were previously thought impossible (earth's magnetic field too weak to be directly detectable by chemical reactions)
they had to devise an experiment to show the extremely magnetosensitive chemistry they were proposing was even physically possible!
it turned out that in the absence of other cues, you can confuse a bird's directional sense with just low level background RF noise!
Foxes possibly have magnetoreception too and I've wondered before how ,y fursona would use it in hir life
so, TIL about possible fox magnetoreception and now you can too
